Handle and serve cheese Lesson 1

For over a thousand years, cheese has been used as a method of preserving the milk of animals

Milk that can be used for traditional cheese making:

The milk used for cheese making in Australia is pasteurised; the milk is quickly heated to 72˚C for 15 seconds and then rapidly cooled.

A starter culture is a specific type of bacteria that is introduced into the milk to help it curdle.

Cheeses can be vegetarian

When making hard cheeses, we do not need to heat up the curd

Cheese is among the richest dietary sources of calcium, which plays an essential role in bone health.

Eye cheeses like gruyere use "props" bacteria which produces gas, therefore the holes in the cheese

Any bacteria is good to make cheese

The first stage of making cheese: